WEBVTT - Exoskeletons: How's it coming? 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:12.719 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:19.520 Josh Clark, that continuously, endlessly ill Josh Clark reminiscent of 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:24.119 two thousand Tennish nine. What's craziest, dude? I take such 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.360 good care of myself though I drink so much juice, 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.520 like fresh juice. You mean I juice almost every day. Well, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.519 that doesn't mean you're in penetrable to sickness and viruses. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.600 I know I don't smoke cigarettes at all. That doesn't 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.280 mean you can't get a virus. Um. No, it should, 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.559 it should. I am like a fortress here, man. I 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:47.320 exercise a lot. I like I spray lice all in 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.720 my face three times a day. That's probably what did it. 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.760 It's it's it's lurksome. I know. I feel bad for 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.280 you anyway, that's me. Chuck's fine. This is Charles W. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.920 Chuck Bryant that you did across from me. He's totally fine. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.760 That is a biddle. And something I noticed about Chuck 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:07.480 today was a little stirring. Chuck is the spinning image 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:12.400 for Tony Stark. Please do you look exactly like Tony Stark? 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:16.039 Like Robert Downey Jr. No, you do. You've got the 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:20.520 hair like eight Robert Downey you have. You've got the hair, 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:25.319 you have the facial hair, You've got them, the glowing chest, 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.680 you have the whole thing going on. All right For 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.440 the uninitiated, UM, Tony Stark is iron Man. He's a 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:41.280 billionaire industrialist, iron man, philanthropist. Yeah, and that was clearly 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.240 just said to introduce our topic. That is not true. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.800 I patted you on the shoulder and reminded you that 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.360 you looked like Tony Stark before we were ever recording. Alright, 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.279 but we are talking about exoskeletons, which is the Iron 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.800 Man suit for all practical purposes, is an exo skeleton? Yeah, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.840 because one thing I learned reading this article is that 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.880 an exo skeleton is also known as a wearable robot, 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:09.440 which falls under the category of human augmentation. Yeah. And 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.600 and one of the Japanese versions of that, the how 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.440 one that we're going to talk about. I saw some 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.600 video today that they had one that was in the 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.959 color of the Iron Man suit. Is that right? Yeah, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.000 of course they're going to do that at some point, sure, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:22.840 but I well, did you see the one on the 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.440 on the page zero of this article. It's awesome. It's 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.200 pretty cool. It's like an army exo skeleton and next 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.160 to it's as future soldier and there's a little there's 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.799 nice track lighting above it. For some reason, play more 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:43.359 with claymore. Jeez, that was grim. Um well okay, sorry 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.240 but still grim. Okay. Um, yeah, I saw some exo 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.000 skeleton videos too that we're pretty awesome. It's pretty amazing 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.720 where we're at right now. Yeah, because this is this 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.840 is not new, but it turns out the U. S Military, 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.160 the Pentagon has been like, give us an exo skeleton, 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.800 we want one bad. It's like the six these and 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.520 pretty much NonStop. People have been trying to do this 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.200 and we're finally getting to the point now where they're 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.840 becoming viable. So it's awesome. It is awesome. So, um, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.680 let's talk about the history of this. Like we're saying, 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:19.200 an exoskeleton is a wearable robot um it's also human augmentation. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.679 But you can't confuse it for armor because armor is 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:27.720 not really augmenting anything. It's protecting. Although an exoskeleton would 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.480 um customarily be provide some sort of protection like armor, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.600 there's a distinction between the two. Yeah, although these that 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.440 they're making now don't have any armament that I can see. No, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.400 it's coming though, yeah sure, yeah these other than protecting 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.840 its own systems, right yeah, but yeah, I guess if 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.360 your arm happens to be behind that, it's protecting it 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.920 as well. It's a win win. So, like I was saying, 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.560 let's um, this has been around for a little while, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:04:00.200 this idea or the Pentagon's quest for this, but um 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.520 Kevin Bondser and Patrick Kiger point out that this idea 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.000 goes back to like the nineteenth century. Um, have you 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:11.400 heard of the steam man on the prairies of the Prairie? Yeah? Yeah, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.800 have you seen that? Yeah, it looked it up. It 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.520 looks like a robot WC. Fields, it does. It looks 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:20.039 like that might have been the or actually that was PREWC. Fields. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.560 But um, yeah, it's a big It was a book. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.679 It was a little Dime Dime Store novel in eighteen 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.800 sixty eight by Edward Sylvester Ellis. And uh, it was 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.840 a big, giant W. C. Fields robot that pulled Um, 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:38.320 I guess the creator of said robot in a little cart, 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.880 Johnny Brainerd like a rickshaw of sorts pulled by a 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.640 robot of sorts. Yeah, so really you could like it 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.560 into a robot more than a wearable robot. He was 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.560 basically a robot that pulled a cart. But for eighteen 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.640 sixty eight for someone to be dreaming this stuff up 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.240 pretty remarkable. I say that the nineteenth century was a 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.800 had a deep pool of fantastic stick imagination agreed from 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.720 like the mid nineteenth century to like the thirties, that's 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.080 where it all happened. I mean that's where it all 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.520 began at least, and then the seventies happened, and like 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.400 that was cool, Like we went back to it a 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.880 little bit. But the nineteenth century to the thirties, it 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.080 was right there. Man. If they could have thought up 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.799 something like the Internet, they would have. And also, um, 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:23.560 you can look up um the steam Man of the Prairies. Uh, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.080 there's images of them all over the Internet. And if 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.080 you're interested in that kind of thing, the entire books 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.200 on Project Guttenberg. Cool. Yeah, not to check that out. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.320 So I'm doing great work Steve Gutenberg these days. Yeah, 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.080 he's killing a project. I mean, who would have thought that, 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:41.240 Like post Police Academy, he would dedicate himself to something 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:45.360 like that noble um, I think some people might think 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:50.479 for serious. Uh So after that, let's flash forward a 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.279 bit to one. This is actually a couple of years 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.480 before Iron Man. It's kind of remarkable. Even in sixty 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.040 three the Iron Man as a comic made its appearance. Well, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.200 I wonder if like this was and this inspired Iron Man. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.600 It probably did. Probably so those Marvel guys, they had 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.280 their finger on the pulse of stuff. The Pentagon had 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:12.120 a couple of proposals for the wear wearable robots and uh. 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:16.120 The AP even reported on the quote Servo soldier, the 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.840 tom servos soldier, and uh, it was a human tank 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.120 equipped with power steering and power breaks, run faster, and 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.080 lift heavy objects, immune to germ warfare, poison gas, and 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.680 even a nuclear blast. Because that's the whole point. They're 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.640 thinking big. It's basically like, we need to come up 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.280 with some sort of outfit that a person can wear 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.560 that will help them be bigger, faster, stronger, jump higher, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:45.960 punch harder. Yeah, what's astounding, chuck um is. Within just 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.960 a couple of years, Cornell scientists named Neil Meisen had 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.640 something that he called the Man amplifier that looks remarkably 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.000 similar to the stuff of today. Have you seen it? Yeah, 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.719 it's sort of reminded me of the um you saw Aliens, right, Yeah, 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.760 remember the little forklift thing. It sort of looked like 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.120 that on top, but the base of it instead of legs, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.440 had like a tank caterpillar tracks like a tank. I 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.840 didn't see that part. Yeah, the ones I saw look 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.520 just like that exoskeleton from Aliens. That might have been 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.480 the Superman suit. I think it was the same thing 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.560 now that well, the Man amplifier that I saw from 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.520 Popular Science, it was like a machine tank track. That's 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.200 pretty cool. But even so, it had the big, big 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:35.080 grabby robot arms. Yeah, crush killed Distroy whistles. Yeah. Um. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.440 So this guy Neil Misen had ad this the idea, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.720 the concept down pretty quickly and pretty short order. Right. Um, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.880 he wasn't the only one. This kind of set off. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:51.120 This Pentagon call for exoskeletons set off like a fervor. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:57.120 Um g E came up with something called the the 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:02.360 pedipulatory pedipulator. You see that one. It looked like a 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.880 modular like you could hook something together. Yeah, it looked 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:07.880 like a sort of like the cab that you ride 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.480 in look like a big one of the big bulldozer cabs, right, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.200 and then it had but it had four legs and 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.800 actually walked. Did it have four legs? I saw so 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.920 the when I saw again, it looked like a um 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:25.760 An ad at right from the Empire st two legs. Yeah, interesting, um, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.560 but they were strung together. There was like four of them, 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.800 four legs. No, I had to no, I had died four. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.640 You're thinking of the Tanton. No, the Tanton is the 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.120 like the beast. No, the ad At was the big 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.120 four leggedge okay, not thinking of the smaller version that's 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:47.400 on two legs in the same scene. Just to act right, 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.560 I'm sure there's Star Wars pans out there going it's 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.600 called and we're going to hear from. Yeah. I don't 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.920 remember what that's called. Um, but you could. You could 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.320 combine these things in four and basically like a UM 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:03.280 human excess skeleton centipede. Yeah. But none of these to 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.200 me look like exoskeletons. They look like machines that you 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.640 sit in and ride. And I got okay. Then I 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.240 saw something that said this is Neil Mines and wearing 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.040 his man amplifier and it looks exactly like the stuff 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:18.000 that they test out today. Yeah, well, good for him, 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.160 Good for Neil. I get the impression that he was 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.199 ahead of his time. So most of these things, unfortunately, 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.760 of course he was out of his time. Uh ended 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.680 it like in somewhat of a dead end. Um. Why 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.679 there's some really good reasons why well, yeah, I mean 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.920 the reasons you would probably guess, which is its way 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:41.520 too com expensive. Computers aren't fast enough, especially in everything 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.440 is too heavy. The batteries. We can't design batteries that 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.679 will last long enough. It's like sort of the quest 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.520 with all technology is like you gotta make it affordable 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:55.720 and uh light enough to operate and you know call yeah, 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.400 I guess suffordable, we cost effective, but all these things 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.880 and then technology is just a limits of technology. So 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:05.079 material science basically wasn't where it needed to be and 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.400 is only just now starting to get there. One of 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.440 the other big problems, one of the other big hurdles 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:13.480 with making a decent exoskeleton is the actuator, which are 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:18.280 them the little muscles that move, the electro mechanical muscles 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:23.880 that move in place of the human muscles. Um. But 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.960 we're starting to get there. I mean, computing power is 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:33.200 getting smaller and more um more um portable and incredibly powerful. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.199 That was the word I was looking for. And wait 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.280 until we get into quantum computing. Man, it's going to 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.440 take off like a rocket. I'm sure, um we are. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:47.200 Battery life is getting more portable, smaller, more durable, um. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:51.120 And apparently actuator science is really starting to come around. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.520 So that means that we have all the stuff in place. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:59.320 And apparently DARPA, the UM Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:05.800 a k A the Secret Area people. I think Morgan 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:10.040 Freeman heads up that division, is that right? Okay? So? Um? 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:15.960 What's his name? Somebody? Fox? The Fox? Didn't I don't 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.000 even remember in the Batman movies. Yeah, I can't remember. Okay, 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:24.840 he's read to me always um, but not Red Fox. Um. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.960 So uh. The DARPA was apparently well aware that this 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.120 the material science and computing power was starting to come around, 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.040 and they put out another call for exoskeletons, and this 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.520 one is starting to pay off, well, a call in 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.840 the form of seventy five million dollars worth of funding, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.360 meaning hey, we can actually put a little dough towards 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.200 this and they said they started a division called the 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:50.559 Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation, which doesn't spell anything cool. No, 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.240 they kind of dropped the ball there, um. And they 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.560 wanted something that would accomplish five things. They had a directive. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.360 They wanted something that would, uh allow just a regular 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.440 soldier to carry like hundreds of pounds of gear without 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.359 much exertion. And this is one of the big applications. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.520 It's not to fly around and shoot people like Iron 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.160 Man like a lot of it's kind of boring. It's 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:15.880 like lifting supplies all day long, doing the work of 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:20.199 three soldiers, basically loading missiles. Yeah, really heavy stuff that 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:21.960 you might need a machine to do. You can now 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.000 get a man machine. Uh. The second thing they wanted 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.040 um to be able to handle heavy weapons that would 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.800 require two people. Now you can do it with one. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.400 They wanted to be able to carry soldiers off the field, 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.720 which is a huge deal. Uh. And one of the 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.560 reasons my brother in law, who's a marine, says that 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.160 they don't allow women in combat it is because a 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.520 lot of you know, you need someone who can throw 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.400 a soldier over their back and trudge through the desert 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.360 for a day. If you need to. That's a common 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:54.640 obstacle that's thrown up against female firefighters as well. Oh yeah, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.800 I get that. I'm all for equality, but you gotta 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.160 take care of the people. You know what I'm saying. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.400 You're a dangerous water show, no man, I mean, I'm 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.040 all for it. If there's a woman who can throw 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:06.720 me on her back and carry me three miles through 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.080 the desert, I'm all for it. But just don't leave 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:15.200 me dying out there. Um. They wanted it to be uh, 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.280 impenetrable and impenetrable to gunfire, which is pretty key too. 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.079 There's the armor thing, the armor thing, and then finally 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:23.520 I think this was the little kid and all of them. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.079 They wanted it to be able to jump really high, 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.400 really really high, just like and and make it jump 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.280 really high and say cool stuff. And there's actually, um, 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:36.959 there's something called the springtail exoskeleton flying vehicle. Have you 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.800 seen that one? Yeah? That I don't know about hovering 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.079 motionlessly thousands of feet in the air. I don't think 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.440 they're at that point yet. Yeah, and this didn't even 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.320 this was not even exo skeleton it No, it was 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.760 more like it was like a g I Joe. Um, machine. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.160 And it's not a jet pack either, which was in 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.720 this article. No, what it is is, um, it's a 0:13:55.720 --> 0:14:00.360 couple of turbines, kind of like two fans. Yeah, um 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.200 off to the side in a m with a ladder 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:09.080 in between. But so you're standing under like under a ladder, 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.160 which is just bad luck to begin with. And then 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.280 connected to the ladder are two turbines on each side 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.360 and you just hang on and you take off, which 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.600 again I don't think it's a combat exoskeleton, but it 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.920 would be very cool if your exoskeleton can fit inside. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.480 So you run five hundred miles carrying five hundred pounds 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:33.160 for straight hours, and then you get in this thing 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:37.000 and fly off. I think that's that's where we're trying 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.240 to head here. It's like a little personal helicopter at 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.280 this point though, Yeah, because I mean, if the company 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:45.720 can crack the this code, they can make all manner 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:50.080 of cool little things right and make them all compatible, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.760 like and then tell the army like, collect all eight 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.560 but you have to buy the happy meal, and the 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.640 happy meal cost you. We should talk about Arcos, which 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.160 would later morph into Raytheon. They're one of the leaders 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:09.320 in the exoskeleton racket. Um guy named Steve Jacobsen is 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.440 the uh was the robot maker at Sarkos. I don't know, 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.640 is he still let raytheon? You know, I don't know. Okay, 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.320 Well he's what started it there though, and um he basically, 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:24.000 uh devised a system where sensors would detect these little 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.720 minute contractions in your own muscles, like if you go 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.760 to like grab something, your muscle is going to contract 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.960 a little bit. And uh, then there were a series 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.440 of valves which regulate the flow of this high pressure 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.520 juice to these joints. Those joints powered cylinders attached to 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.280 cables that were sort of like tendons, and he sort 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:47.000 of made a very basic mechanical version of how our 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.560 own muscles and tendons operate well, like an extension of 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.280 an augmentation of it, where basically these sensors go, oh, 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.240 I know what you're but you let me and um, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.160 you you you will pull your arm off if you 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.520 try to pick this up, But me, the exo skeleton 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.680 knows what you're trying to do. And then after I'm sure, 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.640 training for a few days in this thing, it just 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.920 becomes second nature. Yeah, did you see the Iron Man guy, 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.560 the dude from the movie No, I tested that video. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.200 I was looking for it. The guy was Clark Gregg. 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.280 He was like the agent from the Avengers and the 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.880 Ironman movies. And uh, he tried this thing on and 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:26.160 like punched wood blocks and lifted these big weights and 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.480 did push ups and it was pretty remarkable. That's pretty cool. Yeah, 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.400 it's amazing. Yes, And they called this the XOS this 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.720 is the first prototype, and the x OS well that's 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.600 actually the x OS two nail Well that was Yeah, 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.480 the x OS was the first prototype. But this is 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.800 kind of like the UM the Leading Edge, Like I 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.120 think the Pentagon and Darker are putting a lot of 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:52.000 funding behind Raytheon's UM x OS. Yeah, they predict by 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.640 they could have a tethered module, going, what does that mean? 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.840 That means it's tethered. Do I know what the other means? 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.640 That means it's attached to something like a cable, right, Oh, 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.640 so like it's attached to a power source or something 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.600 like that, something like that. UM, and then they're hoping 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.680 for a non tethered version and because I mean it's like, hey, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.160 bad guys, come over here. Yeah exactly, I can't get you. Well, 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.320 the t other one would be fine for dudes like 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.320 loading trucks and things like that on day, but not 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.080 in what they call the theater of war, you know, 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:32.000 by the way, Winston Churchill, Yeah, I think so. Um, 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.080 I think we forgot to mention that flying vehicle thing. 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.280 That thing actually goes over a hundred miles an hour. Now, yeah, 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.120 and the XOS runs at least ten miles an hour. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:45.360 And I remember reading that first and being like whatever, 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.840 and then I think, oh, yeah, I can't run ten 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.760 miles an hour at all. So this thing running ten 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.119 miles an hour. And the point here is it's in dire. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.320 It's because as long as its battery is charged, how 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.520 can we run. I mean you could run back get 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.719 up there, but for like ten seconds and then your 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:06.120 heart pops. I'm talking to myself. There's I mean ten 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.320 miles an hour is Did you walk four miles an 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:12.600 hour if you walked pretty fast? No? Not typically, No, 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.760 that's getting into speedwalking. We do not walk four miles 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:21.000 an hour like we walked maybe to two point five. Well, 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.040 whenever I did hiking, we always based it on a 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:30.280 four mile an hour pace. That's really fast. I guess 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.040 I was a champion hiker thing. I guess you were. 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:33.479 I should have cut that up. You're like, I used 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.000 to do it on my hands. So, uh, like we said, 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:41.280 Sarkos turned into Raytheon, and then there's other competing firms 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.359 bought by Raytheon. What did I say, it turned into it? 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:50.720 I mean there's a distinction. Then Berkeley Bionics is another company. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:56.199 Yeah there, um Civilian Peacetime. They're basically helping out the 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.000 people who can't walk under their own power any longer. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.920 What they're getting really good at is uh, energy consumption solving, 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.199 solving that problem and uh they had something called the 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:11.440 Human Load Carrier which ran for about twenty hours without 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.040 a recharge, which is a big deal. Yeah, it's a 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.680 big leap forward. Did you see there's another one um 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:22.439 Argo Medical Technologies has something called the rewalk there and 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.399 it's like a hundred and fifty green which sounds like 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:28.760 a lot, but at the same time, Um, if you're paralyzed, 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.040 this thing lets you walk. Yeah, it's it's basically just 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:36.639 mechanical legs attached to your regular legs with a little 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.280 backpack on for the power. Yeah, and it's based on 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.240 the segue. As far as like you lean forward and 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.120 it walks forward. You lean back and it stops, which 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.800 is good because as long as you are as long 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.080 as you're not paralyzed, as long as you're you have 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.399 mobility from the waist up, I would think you'd be 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.320 able to use it because you leave above your waste 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.320 that you're sparling. Yeah, and a lot. Actually we should 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.680 point out a lot of these exoskeletons that even the 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.080 army and the military are working on are Some of 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.000 them are just waist down. Some of them are made 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.400 for you know, punching and lifting and potentially flying and shooting. 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:18.959 But they have a lot of waist down work too, 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:21.760 which they said helps you like lift things anyway, because 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.879 you're supposed to live with your legs, right, It just 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:27.400 transfers the load to the ground. Um and yeah, we're 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.879 also these don't look like um pants. They're not like 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:36.280 just exoskeleton pants. Remember fleas um pants made of Teddy Bears. 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.399 You don't remember this, you should look it up. It's 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:43.520 pretty awesome. The bass player yeah from Red Hot Chili. Um. 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:48.159 They're they're just kind of like braces with maybe a 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.639 foot yeah, that you just step into like you can 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:53.359 step into these things. Yeah, it looks like sort of 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:54.680 like a high tech leg bright So that's a good 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:56.800 way to put it. Yeah, except it walks for you. 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.640 But pretty soon it's gonna look like an awesome suit 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.800 of r that you can like run and jump and 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:05.160 just hover and just do all sorts of cool stuff. 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.600 Like really, reading this, I was like, oh my gosh, 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.480 I can't believe this stuff is really good. Yeah, and 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:12.320 then you see the videos and you think, wow, I 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:13.919 bet it's clunky. And then you see the video of 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:15.920 a guy that's never walked get up out of a 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:17.919 chair and walk, and you think, man, I bet he 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:20.520 didn't think it's clunky exactly because he's not trying to 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.359 kill anybody. He's just trying to walk exactly. Now, we 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.200 just need to get the price down for the average 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.560 person who can't walk. Yeah, um, well, how much were 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.240 those a hundred and fifteen grand? A hundred and fifty 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:34.720 for the walk device? It's still not too bad, no, 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:37.359 that's what I'm saying, especially if your instruental chip in 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:42.040 uh So, there's a company in Japan called Cyberdyne, and 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.159 that sounds like a name that James Cameron would make up. 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:48.840 But it's real. And they have made a real breakthrough 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:52.280 in a couple of ways. One that they don't their 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:56.760 howl machine h a l um. I wonder if Kubrick 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:58.959 was live. I'm sure he's tired of people naming everything. 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:02.840 How it's like enough already. Did you know someone impersonated him? 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:04.560 Oh yeah, they made a movie about it. Yeah, did 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:08.120 you see the movie. It wouldn't be great, but John 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:13.480 Malkovic always great except in that movie. Um. So they 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:15.520 made advances in a couple of ways. One is that 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:20.000 they don't um require the muscle contractions anymore. They pick 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:23.040 up on your brain sensors, your electrical messages being sent 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:27.320 from your brain. That's an enormous, huge breakthrough. Yeah, because 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:29.720 think about it, you don't have to have any mobility whatsoever. 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:32.080 Like you could be Stephen Hawking and like run around 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.760 and like pick up stuff and people and throw them. 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:36.679 If you can think it, you can do it. That 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:39.479 should be their motto. And the other breakthrough is is 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:42.160 I'm sure you saw the how it's like really streamlined 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:46.200